Christmas Pudding Recipe Best

This is based on my dear nan s beautiful pudding recipe which gives you a much lighter result than a traditional christmas pud.

Christmas pudding recipe best. It has more dynamic flavours and is super easy to make this is exactly the way i like it best. On christmas day boil or oven steam for 1 hr. Recipe from good food vegetarian christmas december 2006. This is quite definitely the best and like the christmas cake has been made and loved by a cast of thousands over forty years.

Soak the sultanas raisins currants figs peel apricots and cherries in the brandy overnight giving it a. Christmas pudding is best made well in advance to. Unwrap and turn out. For this recipe you will need two 1 5 litre 2 pint plastic pudding basins with lids.

Plus substituted kraken spiced dark rum for the sherry but was definitely the best ever christmas pudding for the first time the whole pudding was gone at the end of lunch even the teenagers ate it. Make this vegan christmas pudding as part of a festive feast packed with dried figs raisins sultanas and a tot of rum. Serve warm with vegan ice cream 3 hrs and 30 mins. If you ve never made a christmas pudding please don t be put off by the eight hours steaming it isn t any work it just sits happily on its own getting the long slow cooking which is what gives it.

Unlike american puddings a christmas pudding is a dark sticky and dense sponge more like a fruitcake made of mixed dried fruit candied fruit peel apple and citrus zests. Brandy and spices provide a deep complex flavor and signature dark color. I did substitute figs for the prunes and equal cranberry and cherries for the sultanas. To flame warm 3 4 tbsp brandy in a small pan pour it over the pudding and set light to it.